Waning
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 10% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 10% and getting smaller. The 26 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 16 January 2050 at 06:17.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
Moon in ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1927"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1927" and ∠1950".
Snow Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2050 after 17 days on 6 February 2050 at 20:47.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 23 January 2050 at 04:57
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 29 January 2050 at 20:48
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 6 February 2050 at 20:47
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 14 February 2050 at 22:10
Neap tide
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunation 618 / 1571
The Moon is 26 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 618 of Meeus index or 1571 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.46 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 5 minutes. It is 58 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 39 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 30 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠332.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠332.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠350.1°.
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of apogee on 11 January 2050 at 02:36 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 January 2050 at 18:50 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 371 881 km
The Moon is 371 881 km (231 076 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 295 km (222 013 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 18 January 2050 at 17:33 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 31 January 2050 at 04:35 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 05:15 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-21.179°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2050. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠21.106° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 1 February 2050 at 22:34.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 23 January 2050 at 04:57 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
